The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC; Persian: شرکت نفت ایران و انگلیس) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field...
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Burmah Oil founded Anglo-Persian Oil Company to succeed the early prospecting in Persia of William Knox D'Arcy with Burmah Oil owning 97%. Burmah Oil became...
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were the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (a predecessor of BP), Shell plc, three of Chevron's predecessors (Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil and Texaco)...
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The Anglo-Persian Agreement (Persian: قرارداد ۱۹۱۹) involved Great Britain and Persia, and centered on the drilling rights of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company...
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of World War II Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) Anglo-Persian Oil Company Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857) Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 Anglo-Soviet Treaty of...
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National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; Persian: شرکت ملّی نفت ایران, romanized: Sherkat-e Melli-ye Naft-e Īrān) is a government-owned national oil and natural...
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Transport Company, and Atlantic Richfield Co. Shares were held in the following proportions: 23.75% each to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Royal Dutch/Shell...
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government had contracted with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for the supply of oil for the Royal Navy. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was in the proposed path of...
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BP (redirect from BP (oil company))
Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian...
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Kuwait Oil Company Limited was established in 1934, through an alliance between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the American Gulf Oil Company, and is...
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Abadan Crisis (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
the Iranian assets of the BP controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and expelled Western companies from oil refineries in the city of Abadan (see Abadan...
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BP, continuation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company which acquired Standard Oil of Ohio and Standard Oil of Indiana Marathon Oil and Marathon Petroleum,...
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William Richard Williamson (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
("Haji") Williamson was an English adventurer who became an oil company representative in the Persian Gulf. Williamson's early life was packed with adventure...
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initially opened by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company from 1935 and the British Petroleum Company from 1954) on 29 June...
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early 20th century. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (formerly the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and currently BP) had been drilling for oil in Iran since 1913....
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Khazʽal Ibn Jabir (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
The oil industry owed its early success to Sheikh Khaz'al. Once oil was discovered in Masjed Soleyman in 1908, by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)...
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Nissho Maru Incident (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
consumers. The British Anglo-Iranian Oil company (AIOC) filed a lawsuit requesting a provisional injunction for the seizure of oil products carried by the...
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British Tanker Company Limited was the maritime transport arm of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the forerunner of BP. Formed in 1915 with an initial fleet...
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in the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC). The other shareholders were the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) with 47.5%, the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co 22.5%...
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Bob Dudley (category American chief executives of energy companies)
ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 17, 2019. "BP exiting stake in Russian oil and gas company Rosneft". San Francisco Chronicle. February 27, 2022. Retrieved February...
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Amoco (redirect from American Oil Company)
chemical and oil company, founded by Standard Oil Company in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the Standard Oil Company of Indiana...
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three representing the Commonwealth and four representing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The provisional board consisted of: Sir Robert Garran, M. C....
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D'Arcy Concession (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
quantities of oil in 1908. The Burmah Oil Company created the Anglo-Persian Oil Company to take over the concession in 1909. William Knox D'Arcy was born...
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at Cairo in 1950. In 1934, the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) was formed as a joint venture by Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) (now BP, and Gulf. Both APOC and...
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Charles Greenway, 1st Baron Greenway (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
had won from the Persian government. Together, and with capital from the British Government, they founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which made the...
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Abadan Refinery (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
(Persian: پالایشگاه آبادان Pālāyeshgāh-e Ābādān) is an oil refinery in Abadan, Iran near the coast of the Persian Gulf. Built by the Anglo-Persian Oil...
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main factors that triggered the search for oil in Arabia: The discovery of oil by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at Masjid-i-Sulaiman in the mountains of...
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heat from ex-wife". The Sunday Times. "BP exiting stake in Russian oil and gas company Rosneft". San Francisco Chronicle. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 27...
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Tony Hayward (section Deepwater Horizon oil spill)
(born 21 May 1957) is a British businessman and former CEO of the oil and energy company BP. He replaced the Baron Browne of Madingley on 1 May 2007. His...
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Apolipoprotein C, a family of four proteins that resides on lipoproteins. Anglo-Persian Oil Company, later BP Anarchist People of Color APOC (wrestler) is the ring...
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